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> If you actually care about privacy rather than want to pay lip service to some marketing, I disagree that it's lip service Brave has a ton of engine level pr
by filterfiber 3y ago
> If you actually care about privacy rather than want to pay lip service to some marketing,
I disagree that it's lip service Brave has a ton of engine level privacy patches https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches
To my understanding you can't match it with just js extensions.
Only firefox on the highest security mode comes close I think?
Or ungoogled chromium? (brave has most of their patches IIRC)
Are there other options that have this number of patches? I'm not saying I like the company but I think it's incorrect to say they don't do anything for privacy.
EDIT: better link - https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-Protections https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Fingerprinting-P...
- SahAssar 3y agoNumber of patches seems like a very bad metric. Especially since many of braves patches are not about security or privacy, but rather implementing their custom stuff on top of it. I clicked around that github folder and of around 15-ish patches I looked at it seemed like at least 13 were UI-customization and not privacy-focused.
- 416abc 3y agoBrave has also stolen lots of patches and merged them into their codebase against the respective license(s) of the developers who found and patched the gapping security issues. I remember quite the slap fight in the Github issues section.
- attentive 3y agoFrom whom? Chromium is bsd-3 license.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoWouldn't that open Brave to legal consequences if the author's chose to pursue them? Also surprising to hear Eich playing fast and loose with licensing since Firefox benefited so much from Netscape's open sourcing itself.
- kyleee 3y agoHave any good examples?